Possible error in calculation

[kurosaki]

Hi all:

I used the citizenship calculator on the CIC website to determine when I would be eligible to apply for citizenship and when I look at the result it does not seem to make sense to me. I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to verify if I'm right or not.

The calculator tells me that my physical presence is 1024 days (on May 17 2011) and my days of absence is 71 days, so in two months and 11 days I should have the 1095 days, which should be around July 28, 2011, and I don't understand why the calculator is telling me that I would be eligible on October 6, 2011. I would really like to know if my way of thinking is out to lunch!

Thanks in advance,

Here is the output that I got from the calculator:

According to the information you provided and assuming nothing else changes, you will accumulate 1,095 days of physical presence on 2011-10-06.

Arrival date: 2002-08-30
Permanent residence date: 2009-05-17
Application date: 2011-05-17
Basic residence (days): 1095
Time spent serving a sentence (days): 0
Days absent: 71
Physical presence (days): 1024

 

[Karlshammar]

You can only count 4 years for citizenship purposes. Since days were absent you lose not only that day, but also half a day because one day falls off of the half-credit days from before you became a PR, since you must wait an extra day to make up for the absence (as you need at least 2 years of PR status). The final analysis: each day you were absent means 1.5 days extra you need for citizenship.

That being said, October still sounds late to me. You should only need to add 36 days on top of the 71 to make up for the absences, so it should be an extra 107 days. I'm not sure why that is.

 

[Karlshammar]

I figured it out. The day you miss loses you that day, plus half a day that "falls off" from your half-credit days. That's a loss of 1.5 days. Then the day you take to make up for the missed day causes you to have another half-credit day "fall off," so the end result is that each day out of the country causes your citizenship to be delayed by 2 days instead of 1 day.

You can only count 4 years for citizenship purposes. Since days were absent you lose not only that day, but also half a day because one day falls off of the half-credit days from before you became a PR, since you must wait an extra day to make up for the absence (as you need at least 2 years of PR status). The final analysis: each day you were absent means 1.5 days extra you need for citizenship.

That being said, October still sounds late to me. You should only need to add 36 days on top of the 71 to make up for the absences, so it should be an extra 107 days. I'm not sure why that is.